Squad Commander, Captain Tatsunosuke Arrizumi, ordered all planes and torpedoes launched and sunk and then the subs scuttled with all hands on board. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed and the subs were later captured. Arrizumi committed suicide.
The I-14 was captured a a negotiated peaceful surrender made.
The I-201 had "a hellacious number of batteries and could go 20 knots submerged compared to a maximum 8 knots for US subs. It was double-hulled and 300 feet long compared to the 200 for their counterparts. A rubberized coating on the hull muffled internal noise and messed up sonar.
The National Geography Channel, which supported the search for these submarines, has made a show of it, "Hunt for Samurai Subs."
It was amazing how technologically advanced these Japanese submarines were.
Glad They Were Too late Or We Might Have Had A 9-11 Back in World War II. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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